Visualization of the plan. Basically I set up a 9 wire wide section, and worked from there. The focus was channel separation to reduce crosstalk.
how does it sound? well in my opinion- and after a long listening weekend (no computer, nothing to do but stay home with my pre/post minor operation dad), I can sincerely conclude that..... whoops look at the time g2g to bed
. lol. ok ok fine.
I don't like flame wars fueled by snake oil
but
If you really want to know, I love it. I took two cds that usually sounded congested with abysmal soundstage paul van dyk- the politics of dancing and a nicer acoustic self named album
rie fu and used it as my references. I found layering that just wasn't there before, separation of sounds is very noticeable with little effort- it was so much that I kind of disliked it. The background was just too black and most of the tracks just sounded like a bunch of sounds popping up around me, which is good and what I was(kind of) aiming for, but the separation was just astonishing(ly annoying).
The cardas plug. Yes the plug was very important from my little experience. I had tried this hard wired(soldered) to the output of my
lolmeta for a few hours, then attached a switchcraft 1/4 "heavy duty one" borrowed from my senn recable cable, and finally I bought a rat shack 1/4 inch.
Suprisingly, the switchcraft sounded worst with this, since it is all nickel over some unknown metal. Defeats the purpose of such a cable, and the sound was good soundstage but was just not much of an upgrade looking at how much i spent. The rat shack one which is another let down obviously worked, but was horrid because the slightest motion would introduce crackles even after caig deoxit. Junked that one
. I then attached the cardas one which was my first choice. Since the wire is not very heavy gauge and is very precisely made, I know the rhodium/silver cardas plug was the right choice because it made the right sacrifice between durability and signal transmission. I couldn't tell between the cardas and hard wire.
all in all, I think it was worth the money all the way. it is pretty, shiny and
actually improves upon the stock wire. I think it was more effort than any kind of audiophile trick. The wire is not million dollar whatchimacallit, plug is not solid gold, and it doesn't have techflex. What it does have is actual common sense construction, materials research, almost 19 hours of construction + love.
Enough stupid audiophile words
.. I don't really believe in cables too much anyway. This is probably all placebo because first of all I spent way too much effort on this for it not to 'sound' good
, and since I have been away at my parents place with nothing but music and lots of time, that could have been the "added resolution."
I'll leave it for you to decide.
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